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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1990Lincoln County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1990, 5:52 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1990, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1990, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, KS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 6:25 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Lincoln, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 262252
SVRCNK
KSC105-262345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
552 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      LINCOLN

AT 551 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 50 WEST NORTH/
WEST OF SALINA IN THE WILSON RESERVOIR AREA MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.  GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED FROM THIS STORM
ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF WILSON RESERVOIR AT 540 PM.

PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.  THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OF OVER
60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.

ADAMS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-262230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
428 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990

AT 428 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER
CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE TWO STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF HEAVY
RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND
OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF HOISINGTON AND SOME 15 MILES
NORTH OF GREAT BEND.  MOVEMENT SHOULD BE TO THE NORTHEAST OR EAST
AROUND 20 MPH.

PERSONS IN CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF YOUR LOCAL WEATHER
CONDITIONS THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.  SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
LIKELY INCREASE IN STRENGTH THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

ADAMS

Special weather statement, May 26, 5:26 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-262320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
524 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 1990

AT 524 PM RADAR SHOWED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
THEY WERE CENTERED 40 EAST OF HAYS OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF WILSON
RESERVOIR AND 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF SALINA OR JUST NORTH OF
LINDSBORG.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF GIVING VERY HEAVY
RAINS...SOME HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST UNDER 15 MPH WITH A DEVELOPMENT TO THE NORTH.

THE WEST THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE UP ACROSS WILSON RESERVOIR AND INTO
WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY BY 535 PM. THE EAST THUNDERSTORM WILL
REACH THE SALINA AREA BY 550 PM.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS STAY ALERT AND BE AWARE OF YOUR
LOCAL WEATHER CONDITONS.  OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY
FORM IN SOME PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THE NEXT
FEW HOURS.

ADAMS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson	24 min
May 25, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Rice	57 min
May 26, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ellsworth	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.